Jury Pool Profile

Yoakum County, Texas

Republican +71 (2024)

Population: 7,589
Median household income: $82,261
Unemployment: 3.8%

Who sits on a jury?

Race & ethnicity

White alone 4,465 58.8%
Black or African American alone 11 0.1%
Asian alone 66 0.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native alone 98 1.3%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 0 0.0%
Some other race alone 532 7.0%
Two or more races 2,417 31.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4,950 65.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Age distribution

Median age 33

Under 18 2,459 32.4%
18–24 630 8.3%
25–44 1,580 20.8%
45–64 2,051 27.0%
65 and over 869 11.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Economic context

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 3.8%; -0.46 pp vs. state
County GDP: $2.5B; 0.09% of state
Avg. annual pay: $79,119
Establishments: 277

U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Natural resources & mining 1,006 29.8%
Education & health services 741 21.9%
Trade, transportation & utilities 527 15.6%
Construction 363 10.7%
Public administration 167 4.9%
Leisure & hospitality 166 4.9%
Financial activities 144 4.3%
Other services 96 2.8%
Professional & business services 78 2.3%
Manufacturing 22 0.7%

BLS QCEW 2024

Housing

Home ownership: 75.4%
Median gross rent: $931
Owner-occupied: 1,973
Renter-occupied: 643

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Political composition

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 2,393 votes cast

Republican 2,039 85.2%
Democratic 342 14.3%
Other / third-party 12 0.5%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Languages spoken at home

46.7% speak only English at home

Spanish 3,256 47.2%
German 391 5.7%
Other Indo-European 32 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Household composition

Households: 2,616
Family households: 2,005; 76.6% of households
Married w/ children: 1,665
Single-mother households: 180
Veterans: 63; 1.2% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Religious composition

90.1% overall adherence rate

Catholic 3,237 42.1%
Evangelical Protestant 2,589 33.6%
Mainline Protestant 766 10.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 301 3.9%
Black Protestant 40 0.5%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 78.8%
With a disability: 13.5%
Bachelor's or higher: 14.2%

U.S. Census ACS 2023

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 121st District Court
Judges: 1 (Total District Court judges with venue over this county; vintage 2026 txcourts.gov directory + Tex. Gov't Code § 24. Texas's court structure is unusual — each urban county has dozens of numbered District Courts (Harris ~60, Dallas ~45, Travis ~25, Bexar ~25, Tarrant ~20) with trial assignments random across the full bench. Rural counties typically have 1-2 District Court judges sitting on a multi-county district. County Court at Law judges (limited jurisdiction) and Constitutional County Court judges (presided over by the elected County Judge) are separately allocated and not counted here. TX has ~474 District Court judges statewide.)
Court seats: Brownfield, Plains

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Texas statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific

Traffic fatalities: 4; 77.97 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 2

NHTSA FARS 2023